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  Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) (Paperback) By (author) Jean Rhys, Edited by Hilary Jenkins

  

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  Short Description for Wide Sargasso SeaBorn into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 01 November 2006
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: ELT Literature & Fiction Readers | Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780140818031 ISBN 10: 0140818030
  • Sales rank: 2,224

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Full description for Wide Sargasso Sea

• Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.